I^TBODUCTION". 3 



with descriptions of scenery, courses, &c., and inci- 

 dents illustrating turf sports. 



The reasons why I have broached subjects other than 

 breeding and training are the same that would induce 

 a person not to work a favorite colt entirely on the 

 track. Allowing him at intervals to jog through shady 

 lanes, where the hawthorn would shower its white 

 blossoms on his glossy coat, and by the sea-shore or 

 the river-bank, where the ripple of the wavelets would 

 moisten the hoofs parched on the dry, hard gravel, 

 he would return with new life, and knock off a few 

 seconds from the time it had formerly taken him to 

 accomplish a mile. And so the writer felt refreshed 

 after wandering, and returned to the dry details of 

 training, in better spirits and with a keener zest, to im- 

 part what knowledge he possessed to those who join 

 with him in enthusiastic admiration for " a fine horse 



and a fast trotter." 

 i 



JOS. CAIEN SIMPSON. 



